I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
EDWARD ALBEEYour source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Every monster was a man first.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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